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Limericks are humour poems. They begin by introducing a person and a place.
Examples:
In each box, three are three jumbled limericks. Sort the lines into the correct order. Some
have been done for you.
Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
One day, they suppose
Who used to eat onions in bed.
There was an old woman from Kent (1)
Its not very funny.
And found it was perfectly true.
His mother said Sonny,
And nobody knows where she went.
There was an old man from Crewe (6)
With a terrible fright
Whose nose was remarkably bent.
Why dont you eat people instead?
She followed her nose
There was a young cannibal called Ned, (11)
There was a young lady from Gloucester (1)
One day for her tea
Who grew exceedingly tall.
He could stretch out his leg
Who was awfully fond of small gherkins. He woke u pin the night
The trouble was how to defrost her.
From the fridge came a sound
There was a young lady called Perkins (6)
And turn off the light in the hall.
There was a young man called Paul (11)
And pickled her internal workings.
And at last she was found.
Whose parents thought they had lost her.
She devoured forty-three
When he got into bed.
GRAMMAR
A relative pronoun is a pronoun that links two clauses into a single complex one.
Relative pronouns occur at the head of adjective clauses. They can refer to persons or things
(physical objects, ideas, etc.) and to clauses.
Example:
1. This is a modern house. Jack built this house.
2. This is the modern house that Jack built.
The noun or clause to which a relative pronoun refers is its antecedent; some examples in
English:
3. The book that you want to borrow is not available.
4. John drives too fast, which makes his wife nervous.
Relative pronoun
Use
Example
Who
Which
Which
Whose
Whom
That
Where
Refers a place
When
If the relative pronoun is followed by a verb, the relative pronoun is a subject pronoun. Subject
pronouns must always be used.
If you havent read Romeo and Juliet, investigate and underline the
correct option.
1. The problem which caused Romeo and Juliets tragedy was:
a) their parents jealousy
families
c) Romeos family
d) Juliets parents
c) kill themselves
b) Don Quixote
c) Othello
Being Ernest.
d) The Importance of
4. Verona, which is in ____________________, is the city where those lovers lived and died:
a) Italy
b) Germany
c) France
d) England
GRAMMAR
Relative clauses
It is important to distinguish between defining and non- defining relative clauses.
Defining Relative Clauses are an essential part of the meaning of a sentence and therefore they
cannot be left out. They define exactly who or what we are talking about.
Defining relative clauses are not put in commas.
Non-Defining Relative Clauses add extra information of secondary importance, but not define it;
and can be left out of a sentence.
Non-defining relative clauses when written are put in commas, and pauses before and after
them when spoken.
Mrs Bottomley, who was a extremely mean person while she was alive, has left all her money to
a cats home.
Non-defining relative clauses are mainly found in written English, where sentences are carefully
constructed. In spoken English, they sound rather formal, and can easily be expressed by
simpler sentences.
Note: In non-defining relative clauses, who/which may not be replaced with that.
Examples:
Write the correct relative clause and put the comma where necessary:
1- My sister _________is a teacher lives in Australia.
2- The town __________ I grew up is very small.
3- The sweater _________ John bought me is too small.
4- The subject __________ Im studying is too difficult.
5- The shop __________ is near my house has beautiful clothes.
6- The country __________ I want to visit most is France.
7- Terry _________ is very lazy failed his maths exam again.
8- Jane ________ hobby is skating has broken her leg.